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geoff (2013)

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Journal of geoff (2013)

Thursday December 13, 2001
06:19 PM

open sources

[ #1633 ]
today I wrote a sendmail log parsing script. a few interesting things happened while I was working on it.

$ perl -cw myscript

yielded

"use" may collide with future keyword

eh? seems that /usr/bin/perl on this box was Perl 4 *gasp*

that was good for a chuckle.

anyway, instead of writing my own log parser (which is probably just as common as writing your own templating system) I borrowed one. I used mtop which was written by friend and former co-worker Jeff Horwitz. thanks to Jeff, all I have to do is tear apart his work to get what I need, not write it myself. kudos to open source...

speaking of Jeff, a few months ago he lets me in on an alpha of extproc_perl. If you like perl and are an oracle slave (like me), then you should probably check it out. extroc_perl is mod_perl ala oracle - perl embedded in oracle, so you can use perl methods and regular expressions from SQL or PL/SQL. smashing, baby.

With the book and all, I haven't had the time to properly play with extproc_perl, but I think the time is ripe. Last friday, he stops by for lunch and I get the skinny on what's going with it. Besides a bit of press on the DBI users list, it appears as though everyone will know about extroc_perl before too long (wink, wink). So, if you want to be cool, impress your friends, and be a trend-setter, check it out...

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  • I'm surprised more people don't know that you can actually write entire stored procedures in PostgreSQL using Perl. This is pretty neat - you can open cursors and navigate through them using all the common idioms in Perl we know and love (map, grep, etc).

    Also, on a similar note: Pg 7.2b4 was released this week, with mucho performance improvements over 7.1... Should blow MySQL out of the water real soon now :-)
    • There is something similar like that for MySQL, though I can't say how good it is. It's still early in development, called myperl [tangent.org].
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